Not a pilot. After reading over several days this forum one thing struck me as rarely mentioned. Isn't it a systemic error of the airline to put a novice at the type (PF) for the first landing at a demanding airport (SFO) together with yet another novice in his job, the training captain? It was said that they were both experienced pilots but obviously that did t help them here, now did it. Isn't this the biggest mistake to put these two newcomers to type and job together?
In my profession that is not done. E.g. In surgery you will never find two experienced surgeons doing a procedure new to both of them together. There will be one experienced in the procedure training the other (unless it is so new and experimental but that equals in my comparison to landing on the moon). I have seen once a surgeon trying a new instrument (gastric stabler) nobody used before and it didn't bide well for him. He tried 40 minutes, didn't get it to work and then reverted to hand sewing.